While most coaches talk about things like passion, design and calling, living your destiny as a Christ-follower is much more than simply looking inward to follow your bliss or find fulfillment. To create a uniquely…
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Coaching has enough of a buzz surrounding it that it seems to be cropping up all over the place in today’s church. While that’s exciting news, it also means that people are being called “coaches”…
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The gift of relationship is the linchpin of Gods strategy for transforming people. Therefore, if were working at change, it would make a lot of sense for us to imitate Gods approach. Coaching does exactly…
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A practical way to work with a Christian coaching client at their allegiance to Christ is to invite them to structure their lives for eternal rewards. In other words, figure out what God rewards, and…
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One of the beauties of Christianity is that the important things are pretty simple. The on-purpose Christian life simply reflects Gods purposes: to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and to…
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For Christians, calling comes from God. Allegiance means that I have signed ownership of my life over to the lordship of Christ, and my fulfillment lies in a Kingdom that is not of this world. The idea of letting go of what we can gain in life and living to serve God is one of the distinctives of Christian coaching.
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There are a lot of similar terms floating around in life coaching circles, and we arent always clear on what each one means. From my work is life coaching, I have found the following list…
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Have you been wondering where God is at times in your life?
Psalm 139 states that God knows about every detail of our lives and there is nowhere we can go that would take…
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As Christian coaches, we are blessed with some awesome truths. We have a relational God. Who loves us abundantly as His children. God chose us before the foundations of the world, rather than…
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As coaches, we often find ourselves wearing several different hats depending on whatever situation we happen to be dealing with. Before we know it, we may find ourselves with a few too many hats in our coaching closets! The result: chaotic thinking and a sense of being overwhelmed. Here are some suggestions from Colleen Nordlund on how to keep perspective while you deal with a hectic schedule.
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If the practice of coaching were to be boiled down to it’s two core functions you are left with reflection for insights and action steps for application. Yet, some people struggle with coaching action steps. They view stimulating reflection as virtuous and the main job of a coach, while generating action steps as too pragmatic and therefore optional.
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Executive coaches usually have a wide range of experience, but knowing your specialty is also important. Have you identified yours? Being clear about your specialty is not only a basic marketing principle, but testimony to why God has called you to coaching.
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Over the years I’ve personally been deeply grieved to watch a number of important relationships in the Christian coaching world implode over contract issues. Those experiences started me thinking: what does scripture have to say about a Christian coachs relationship to contracts and the legal system? We all use coaching agreements, and we have contracts with the schools that train us with those who do work for us. Is the way we craft these agreements biblical, or are we just copying common business practices without really thinking about how the fit with a Kingdom perspective?
So let’s dive in and explore what a biblical approach to coaching contracts might look like…
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“On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and myrrh.”
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What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Should a Christian Use it?
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These questions come across my desk or are raised in a telephone conversation almost daily. I would like to shine some light on this topic and open a conversation and exploration about it with you. In doing so I think it is important to define what is NLP, explore it’s origins, and applications.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming: What is it really?
The origins of NLP are fairly simple. Two men, John Grinder and Richard Bandler were interested in…
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